Speakers
President Elect, Prairie View A&M University
The Importance of Culture: Understanding Black Female College Athletes’ Health and Well-BeingThe purpose of this conceptual paper is to illuminate how culture affects Black female college athletes’ (BFCA) experiences of well-being. In 2014, the National Collegiate Athletic Association...
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Texas Southern University
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Transition 101: Creating a pathway of Black student excellence in sport education, Olivet College
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the transition and acclimation of undergraduate students of color that attend Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to graduate school in the field of sport. More specifically we will discuss the pedagogical efforts to prepare...
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University of Texas at Austin
Session: LGBTQI and Sporting CultureDisco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park: The Implications for Race, Sexual Orientation and the Future of BaseballDisco Demolition Night was an ill-fated baseball promotion in July of 1979 at Comiskey Park after the first game of White Sox/Twins...
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DCCC Chair, Western Illinois University
A Book of Songs & Sexual Assault at the United States Air Force AcademyCollegiate athletic departments are grappling with sexual assaults as stories of student-athlete’s raping unconscious women, gang rapes, and coaches’ ambivalence towards predator’s flood news cycles. Sexual...
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Friday November 2, 2018 11:00am - 12:15pm PDT
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